re Sarah Bee

re AC "A bit of blade-runnerism"

correct me if I am wrong, but I think Doctor all come came from Johnny Mnemonic the classic cyberpunk book by william gibson, later turned into a film starring keanu reeves, and not Blade Runner (or "do androids dream of electric sheep" by phillip k. dick).

With a bit of luck

Crowe will get so engrossed in being a character actor for this role he will smoke too many cigarettes, take too many drugs, and drink too much liquor that he himself will keel over in a heap somewhere.

ah I can but hope.

and I am afraid I won't put hand in pocket to see this film (if it makes it as far as completion) I will just sit at home and watch my collection of Bill Hicks DVD's

so where do I stand then?

If I went out and bought a game - CoD4 for example, played it on my PC for a couple of months, then some scrote broke into my house and nicked my PC, leaving the empty CD case in my house (I left the cd in the drive) so once Mr insurance man sent me a nice shiny new PC and I set it up, I downloaded a copy of the game and installed it, am I breaking the law because I am getting a free replacement copy of the Media?

there is a drastic shortage of teachers in Music, history, maths, IT to name 4 disciplines.

our beloved government are trying to rol out legislation (according to my friend) that all children will stay in school until they are 18 (a la the yank schooling system) by 2010.

our beloved government has already decreed that all teachers should hold masters degrees or similar (can someone advise what the going rate for someone in the private sector gets paid straight out of Uni with a masters degree? bet its more than £19k)

now work out that no one wants to teach because of the low pay grades (see above) those that do teach are going to be even more stretched due to the leaving age increasing to 18.

I can see a mass leaving of teachers to the private sector some time very very soon. and given this ruling I think what we will find is all the good teachers will leave, not wanting to run the risk of having their careers ruined leaving the poor/mediocre teachers to educate our children.

I vote we the people employ someone called Guy Fawkes, he was a man with the best idea to deal with politicians

after reading the rest of the comments

most of a 10 litre box of wine?

having watched the beeb video, and watching the miscreant in question I seriously doubt he had drunk most of a 10 litre box of wine, and run around and then run off over the wall.

I smell legal shinnanigans to get the taffy out of clink.

After all if I had drunk nearly 20 pints of wine (using 1 pint = 0,5 litres as a rough ballpark) I would either be: comatose, very very sick and unable to walk or talk, or hospitalised sucking back on a big hose whilst the pumped my stomach.

and why did not the Jedi's force push him away into a bin?

bah hokey religeons are no match for a good blaster at your side

mines the one with the YT1300 keys in the pocket and covered in wookie hair thanks

Next Years event

maybe next year the police and fire brigade will be able to organise the riot water hoses and "redistribute" the fire trucks in a security cordon around the event to totally Pwn everyone else and have a bit of a luagh along with it. look on the bright side, it would be the first time in a long time a team from leeds won anything....

mines the souwester with the footy rattle in the pocket and fasionable rain hat

@ tim parker

the "missing 23Gb" is taken up by the vista install, the MS office 2007 instgall, and the R&R partition. vista is already a fat bloater when it comes to disk space. however I have a cunning plan to drastically reduce that. and for the monet it is a pretty good laptop, lets not forget that 64Gb SSD's aint exactly cheap, and my old T60 took a bid for freedom out of my boot one night on the way home (nissan never buy one) and once I had reseated the HDD, CD-R and memory booted first time.

@ anonymous coward

- NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOO NO NO NO,

theres no theres no, theres no limit?

Lets face it, he revamp of Dr Who is brilliant, Battlestar Galactica is to be quite frank jaw droppingly good - even with a female starbuck, and I was one of the "you can't have a female starbuck" crowd, the new Knightrider with the mustang and Val Kilmer as Kitt is also as good, if not better in many ways to the original.

before you start your screaming about a travesty, how about waiting to see if:

a) it gets off the ground

b) who they cast

c) if it's actually any good?

mines the one with the keys to the liberator and the Avon fanclub membership card

Beer in supermarkets

Here is a thought, as beer - proper beer that is (and I include stout in this because I like a drop of the black stuff) is made with yeast, we could hypothetically class it as a food stuff akin to bread, therefore Supermarkets can stock ales, bitters etc.

Vodka and poteen is made from (mostly) potatoes, therefore a vegetable product

ciders and perries are made from apples and pears etc so they could count as fruits (5 a day anyone?)

so all the supermarkets need do is stop stocking stuff not derived from the above products, and the world is a happy and safe place.

St Trinnians

So its not ok to have an obviously no school girl dressed like that, but it is OK to have a whole film of girls dressed like that - I am OFC talking about St trinians, all of the films, not just the latest one. FFS this sort of thing was ok in the 50's - just look at the original St Trinians films with Alastair Sim and George Cole, all the older girls wore stuff alot more provocative than that.

methinks the ASA needs to pull it's collective thumb out of its bum, take a step back and take a good long look at itself

WTF?

Quantum of Solace will follow on from Casino Royale, with 007 "picking up the pieces after being double-crossed by Treasury agent Vesper Lynd".

er I may be wrong here but bond would never "pick up the pieces" the only time he ever showed his true feelings was in OHMSS when he got married and his Wife was Murdered, unless it is to go on a frenzied attack against the evil scum that caused vespa to double cross him....

What?

[quote] "I suppose this video could be billed as the revenge of Monty Python's upper-class twits. Doubtless it is intended as humour and irony, but it comes across as brash, crass, and arrogant."[/quote]

pardon?

Monty Python have previously done this sort of class humour from both sides for years, it was as funny and relevent when the first did it as it is now.

Obviously Ms Cunningham is not resident in the real world as Monty Python's Flying Circus has been voted the most infuential UK comedy series, (with only fools and horses coming a close second)

Shad

Just a quick point, but quite a pertinent one given your obvious anti smoking stance,

let us offer a theoretical ideal that everybody who smokes in the UK gives up tomorrow. thats it no more smokers in the UK ever.

1. where does the treasury get the lost revenue in tobacco products tax from?

2. given that no one smokes anymore, who is going to refund the outlets who have stock they can't sell?

3. who is going to stump the bill for the mass increase in unemployment? as no one smokes, the staff involved in getting the smoker his smoke of choice are suddenly all unemployed - that's got to be ITRO a couple of hundred thousand people accross the UK

your answers to these questions would be appreciated - ta

and as we are supposed to be living in a tolerant and free society, please stop discriminating againt the smokers, if you don't like it quite simply stay away from the pub, beat the rush, because the government will go after beer soon enough

and yes I used to be a smoker, and don't mind my friends who smoke smoking infront of me.

C64 vs Spectrum

oh and Mr Thomas, please insert head into nearest toilet and flush repeatedly,

"The iPod had the greatest cultural impact of any piece of technology over the last ten years"

has it buggery, what about the PS2 - I would have said the original PS, but it is 12 years old not 10 or less years, what about the advent of DSL provision in the home market causing a huge increase in blogging, social networking sites and online gaming et al?

believe it or not apple is not the best thing ever, so stop being a fanboy.